the australian way

One notices how the PNGns reflect on the Melanesian way and so after hearing the Australian PM reflect on the Australian Way - he said some Muslims are extremists who cannot embrace the Australian Way -, I thought I should as an ambassador of my country reflect on the Australian Way so I can show I am proud of my heritage too.

Australia is as Australians do. Terrorists suspects, drug traffikers, monarchists, extremists, con men, Wheat Board extortionists, shock jocks, Bible fundamentalists, politicians, cricket crowds, opera audiences, drunks and anyone else, along with me and other moderates, embrace the Australian Way because as residents there, there is no other way to embrace. It is meaningless but mischievous to say otherwise, but consider if it were so:

If baseball players embraced the Australian Way, they would play cricket.
If rice growers embraced the Australian Way, they would plant wheat.
If Toyota and BMW drivers embraced the Australian Way, they would drive Holdens.
If Soccer, Rugby or League players embraced the Australian Way, they would play Aussie Rules.
If teetotling PM Howard embraced the Australian Way, he would be a guzzling drunk in a pub.
If Pizza, Fried Chicken and Hamburgers eaters embraced the Australian Way, they would eat Roast Lamb.
If those outside prison embraced the Australian Way, they would do something to become convicts.
Did Ned Kelly embrace the Australian Way? If so, why did we hang our national hero?

Lots of things that Australians do are ugly. Take off your Rousseauian noble savage glasses and look at the Australian Way. At the cricket it is the Australian way to be obnoxious, racist and crude. When we travel to Asia, it is the Australian Way to be vulgar and offensive.

We make laws to prevent Australians being sexist in the workplace and to stop men from bashing their families so it is racist (and probably the Australian Way) to specify one particular form of mistreatment of women as not embracing the Australian Way. Shock Jocks and League of Rightists are extremists so why are they not singled out as not embracing the Australian Way? Because it is the Australian Way to be inconsistent and selective.

I've heard more hate and bile coming from Shock Jocks than I've heard from Religious Extremists. But that's the Australian Way.